Raffaele Sollecito distances his appeal from case against Amanda Knox
The defence lawyer of Raffaele Sollecito, the ex-boyfriend of Amanda Knox who faces a 25-year prison sentence for the murder of Meredith Kercher, has urged Italy's supreme court not to automatically tar him with the same brush as his American co-defendant as the pair launch new appeals against their convictions.
At a press conference in Rome on Tuesday, the 30-year-old Italian unveiled his strategy for the appeal, which could see him and Knox definitively convicted of the British student's killing in 2007.
He insisted he was not changing his position towards the 27-year-old student from Seattle and that he and his family believed "to this day in the innocence of Amanda Marie Knox".
But - in what some read as a sign he is preparing to distance himself from his former lover after six-and-a-half years of rigidly joint defence - he claimed that his innocence was proved by the very elements which the Florence appeals court had used to convict them both.
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